Oprah's Stepmother Blasts Cruel Treatment

After 14 years of marriage to Oprah's father Vernon, Barbara Winfrey is being forced out of her marital home by Oprah, leaving her homeless.

'You say I never talk to you,' Oprah told Barbara in a birthday phone call. 'I'm talking to you now. You have until Monday to get out of MY house'

According to Barbara, ‘Vernon had been telling everyone he was unhappy with the marriage. He told Stedman and he told Oprah, so she came up with an escape plan I guess to get me out of the picture, make all the scandal of what he’d done go away.

‘The settlement they offered was the house that I had owned but lost, the car I’d had since 2004, with 110,000 miles on the clock and I had to sign a confidentiality agreement.

‘Vernon also asked for a chunk of my pension because he claimed I was the main earner in the household.’

At the time, Barbara’s daughter and five-year-old grandson were living in Barbara's old house, which is now owned by Oprah’s company.

When Barbara rejected the settlement, she explains, her daughter and grandson were told to leave the property.

‘That house lay empty and then it was sold. Tell me, what sort of person does that? I would have walked away quietly but she put my baby and my grandbaby out on the street. That made it personal.’

In her interview she herself said Oprah was to give a smaller house which in my opinon looked just as nice. She declined. Oh well. Oprah owes her nothing. I believe this is a different wife than when Oprah was a teen. This one didn't raise her. I may be mistaaken but she is different

Barbara is just like all these young women that want to lay up in something they can't afford. Why was your baby and grandbaby living there anyway? Oprah offered a different home, the home Barbara originally lived in, but that was not good enough now! Oh please. Take yo ass, and your free loading family and move into something you can afford to pay the taxes on and leave Oprah and her daddy alone.

Smh. Why did they divorce again? Divorces can be so ugly. My mother pulled a Porsha and asked for nothing towards the end of her marriage of 20+ years. She just wanted to move on. As for Barbara's situation, clearly Oprah is all in the mix of their divorce so she should fight to keep her pension, and let Opah continue to support her father. It's hard to give up the lifestyle, but Oprah isn't her kin, and so she needs to find a new residence for herself and family.

Wait a minute..Oprah was giving you back the old house, your old home, the one you use to own before you move into the bigger/newer house. You declined and now you making it personal, because she put your family out of the house. She didn't put them out, you did. You can not be picky when you don't own anything.

Choose one or the other, a free house or the streets. You chose the STREETS!

That man didn't want any of her pension, he just asked for it because he could and because Barbara was probably being such a bitch about leaving the house. How much could she really have in that account? I guarantee it is not Oprah money!

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These people are worst than banks and the IRS. They give nothing and take everything. She has done nothing for Oprah, not raise her, not advise her, not a cotdamn thing. She only married into the family.

I hope Oprah sues her for defamation and really put this bitch under a bridge.

@11:39 That is why Oprah stayed the hell away from her. She knew Barbara was a back stabbing BITCH! The fact that Barbara is talking all kind of shit about Oprah & Gayle's friendship speaks volumes about her. In the Daily Mail article she said their relationship is why neither women are married. Well Barbara is no longer married AND she does not have anyone in her corner since she is about to be living in the streets with her daughter and grandchild.

@121 No wonder what you say about Oprah remember you are on a blog talking about her, she's a work at her own company working NOT thinking about YOU. with 1.3 Billion to figure out how to spend it so you are everything you just called Oprah, you forgot - jealousy...I know its gotta hurt. LO

Barbara will get no sympathy here, what the hell makes her think she was going to go up against someone of O's high powered lawyers? and she had the nerve to decline a house?? did she think because she's married to O"s dad no matter how trifling his ass is, she should have a mansion? shit I would have done the exact same thing as Oprah girl bye!!!

They must have let school out early? Please spend more time in the library to be able to comment more mature then blah blah blah. I'm sorry for you lack of vocabulary. However, you are going to learn today how to talk back to grown people..

Oprah dd the right thing. How long were they even married? He didn't have a fucking dime his kid did. To think she is owed anything from her is pure fuckery. You see why people with money have bad family relationships. They feel shit is owed them.

Go to jezebel.com and read some of the comments on this story. Evidently, there were a few people who had run-ins with Barbara while she worked at their school and said what a bitch she was. That she would berate the kids at the school, even telling one girl it was her fault she got raped. And that she REALLY thought she married into royalty marrying Vernon. This cash-grab of an interview proves that Oprah knew a dirty dog when she saw one.

Oprah doesn't owe this BITCH a home because she is no longer married to her father. You are no longer family, SO GET THE FUCK OUT!!!! STOP DOING INTERVIEWS LADY YOU LIVED A LASCIVIOUS LIFE NOW PARTY OVER!!

Did you people even read the full story? It's Oprah's father's fault that she lost a house she lalready owned outright.Oprah is being petty and vindictive. They have been married for more than 12 years. Vernon cheated- it's documented. Even the court sided with the woman as far as the petitoin for the divorce. Vernon is owned by Oprah. He has nothing and is probably going after her pension out of desperation because he knows Oprah can cut him off at any time.I hope this woman lands on her feet and gets far far away from Opra's sick twisted world.